Isthmus Brewing in Auckland have taken top spot at the annual New World Beer & Cider Awards with their 3D IPA. The awards, in their 10th year, feature some major changes with the Top 30 reduced to a Top 25, making it an ultra-competitive event. And this year, there’s a new category known as Weird &

Introducing the Top 25 of the New World Beer & Cider Awards for 2025. Whether you're a craft beer connoisseur or just love discovering something new, there's a winner worth trying.

Some of Aotearoa’s boldest, smallest, and most inventive brewers have claimed a spot in the 2025 New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 25, and they’re in good company alongside some of the biggest names in beer and cider from New Zealand and around the world. 

Some of Aotearoa’s boldest, smallest and most inventive brewers have claimed a spot in the 2025 New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 25, announced today. More than 650 entries were blind-tasted over three days by an independent panel of 25 expert judges

Isthmus. Meaning: A narrow strip of land bordered on both sides by water. Oh, and a brew company creating exceptional quality craft beer! It’s the perfect name for an Auckland-based microbrewery helmed by the husband and wife duo of Hamish Ward and Caroline Muller-Ward.

After a three-year hiatus, Wellington’s favourite little beer festival is back! Winter Ales Festival began in 2009, run by the Society of Beer Advocates (SOBA), as a celebration of the darker, warmer, stronger, and all-around wintry beer styles. It started as the Matariki beer festival at...

Welcome to a Sunday Special Dispatch of Friday Night Beers looking at the results of last night’s NZ Beer Awards in Auckland. Well, recent history was turned on its head with Parrotdog usurping Garage Project as the country's champion large brewery, and McLeod's ending Behemoth's reign in the mediu

Isthmus Brewing’s Figaro, a fig and chocolate imperial stout (9% ABV) is intensely dark in colour, crowned by a coffee crema head. The aroma begins with notes of cocoa powder and dark chocolate, gradually changing to include hints of coffee, boozy liquor, and sweet dried figs.

The days are shorter, the shadows longer and the temperatures lower, but our judges have uncovered New Zealand's best dark beers to light up your life…

New Zealand breweries celebrated a huge night at the Australian International Beer Awards in Melbourne on Thursday, with three trophies and a swag of gold medals.

The New World Beer & Ciders dish out 70 highly commended gongs to go with their Top-30 “golds” to create a Top-100. The competition is so cut-throat that anyone listed in the Top-100 is a winner.

I’ve drunk a goodly amount of Isthmus beers, but oddly they’ve not made a stout that I know of, but I’m not an expert in that. So, if you’re going make one go all on on a Fig and Chocolate one. Right?

The Isthmus 3D IPA showcases the three dimensions of a classic West Coast IPA – hops, hops and more hops says founder Hamish Ward, who is also head brewer at the Deep Creek Brewing Company which has two of its products in the Top 30 list.